John shellenberger



(N0 Model.)

"J. SHELLENBERGER.

Bottle Wrapper. No. 239,987. Patented April 12,1881.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN SHELLENBERGER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

BOTTLE-WRAPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,987, dated April12, 1881. Application filed November 23, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN SHELLENBERGER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thin \Vood-VeneerWrappers for Bottles and other Glassware, of which the following is aspecification.

My inventioarelates to wood-veneer wrappers for bottles and othersimilar ware; and the object of my improvement is to provide a woodveneer wrapper with fringed brushshaped ends, which, when wrapped arounda bottle, will protect the same from breakage and admit of close packingin cases. This object l accomplish by the device illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in Which- Figure 1 represents a top view of abottle the body of which is inclosed in my improved wood-veneer wrapper.Fig. 2 is a vertical View of a bottle with the wrapper-in section. Fig.3 is a plan view of a sheet of wood veneer having both ends slit intonarrow strips, forming fringe of a brush shape; and Fig. 4 is an endView of Fig. 3, showing the irregular manner in which the narrow stripsforming the fringe cause an extra thickness of the wood by overlappingone another; and Fig. 5 represents a perspective view of a wrappercomposed of two sections of veneer united together by a paper band.

Similar letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

B represents any ordinary bottle; a, the sheet of thin Wood veneer. 7

AA represent the fringed or bruslrshaped ends, which are cut or slit bysuitable inachinery. These sheets of thin wood veneer, when providedwith the fringed edges A A,

are wrapped around a bottle in one or more 0 pieces and secured bypasting a paper strip, 0, around the uncut part a, or the wrapper may bemade in two or more parts, with the joints a united by a paper band, 0,forming a case, in which the bottle can be inserted.

The upper fringed end, A, may be bent inward, cone-shaped, around theneck of the bottle, and the lower fringed end,A, may be bent outward, ifdesired, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. When a lot of bottles thus inelosedare packed in a box or case they pack closely, and the danger ofbreakage is avoided.

By making the thin wood-veneer wrappers with fringed brush-shaped endsin two or more parts or sections, and uniting them altogether by pastinga strip of paper around them, the pieces forming each wrapper may beclosed flat together and shipped in bulk, each wrapper being completeand ready to receive a bottle.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A wrapper for bottles, as an article of manufacture, consisting of athin sheet of wood veneer having one or both ends out or slit into thin,narrow strips, forming a fringe of a brush shape, the strips forming thefringe overlapping each other and forming a double elastic thickness ofthe wood at the top, or top and bottom, as shown and described.

In testimony WhereofI have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN SHELLENBERGER.

Witnesses:

E. 0. FRINK, GEO. H. BENNETT.

